May 05, 30 p.m., Istanbul, Turkey, Ataturk Stadium.

Unlike Stamford Bridge and the Dragons, Ataturk Stadium is not a pure football stadium, but a multi-purpose stadium, so it has an elliptical running track and other areas for athletics competitions, which inevitably makes it inevitable that even though Ataturk Stadium has more than 70,000 seats, the distance between the stands and the stadium is still very long.

In the words of Alan Hansen, the host of today's match on HHC TV, even if Ye Qiu passes the note again this time, it will be difficult to pass it to the hands of the coaching staff, not only because the whole world is staring at him, but also because the distance is too far.

The game has not yet started, but the stands of the Ataturk Stadium are already crowded, blue and red are very dazzling, which represents the two camps of this game, representing the blue Chelsea, and the red Liverpool, they clearly divided the stands into two areas.

It's hard for anyone to find red in blue, and it's hard to find blue in red, and it's like two forces that are incompatible, but it's amazing how the crazy passion that characterizes England fans converges at the Ataturk Stadium.

Even if the game has not yet started, the two fans have been cheering and cheering in the stands almost frantically, singing the team song, the momentum is comparable, gathering together, and finally evolving into water that cannot be heard clearly, intertwined, and no one is willing to admit defeat.

According to UEFA rules and the latest rule interpretation, the manager will not be allowed to sit in the dugout to direct the game after the red card ban, and can only sit in the stands, but must not have any form of contact with the team, otherwise there will be additional severe penalties, and the dressing room will not be allowed at half-time, and can only enter the dressing room after 15 minutes after the game.

Therefore, for Ye Qiu, the only thing that can command the game is before the game.

But in this game, the home team's dressing room before the game was as silent as death, no one spoke, no one gasped, and even breathed very lightly.

Goalkeeper Cudicini, Heinze, Gallas, Cannavaro and Son Jihai in the back, Davies, Deco and Parker in the midfield, and Ribery, Gudjohnsen and Rooney in the front court form a trident, which is the starting lineup of Ye Qiu in this game.

Without big names such as Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard and John Terry, without Didier Drogba, Edwin van der Sar, Cone McCone and Carlele and even without their own manager in the game, this is undoubtedly the biggest challenge for Chelsea in this game.

There are a lot of people in this team who are appearing on this stage for the first time, playing as a starter for the first time, and they will inevitably feel a little nervous and pressure, because they will inevitably be compared to the main team who are absent.

In Ye Qiu's view, Chelsea's lineup is purely based on strength, and it is not completely without strength against Liverpool, the most important thing is that he will be absent, which makes him have no way to adjust, and the UEFA people are at the door, wait for him to go to the rostrum, and accompany the UEFA president and special guests to watch the game together.

In other words, UEFA didn't give him even the slightest chance this time.

Thinking of this, he was full of apprehension and anxiety about this game, which was the most uncertain game since he took charge, because it was completely out of his control, and the opponents were Benitez and Liverpool, who were strong and tactically excellent.

It's been a long, long time since he's been in this mood, especially since coming to Chelsea, where everything has been smooth sailing and everything hasn't escaped his control, which inevitably breeds a kind of arrogance.

Looking at himself, he hasn't made the slightest improvement on a tactical level over the past year or so.

In fact, it is not surprising that Chelsea is too strong, when a team is too strong, the role of tactics will be relatively weak, and the manager has more choices, so there is no need to try to improve his tactical knowledge and literacy as he did when he was in charge of Ajax, so it is not surprising that he has not improved at all

It was only when he met Benitez that Ye Qiu felt the pressure.

"Are you afraid?"

Ye Qiu slowly walked to the middle of the players, he tried his best to make himself smile easily, he needed the players to have fighting spirit.

The players all sat in their seats, raised their heads, and looked at their head coach, while Ye Qiu also turned around, so that the players could all see his face, especially feel his ease.

"Actually, you may think that I always seem to be confident, but in fact, every time I walk out of this door," Ye Qiu pointed to the door of the locker room behind him and smiled, "My heart is full of apprehension. ”

"I'm always wondering, what kind of tactics will my opponent use against me? Has my opponent found my weaknesses and shortcomings? Will they do anything to restrain me? I never imagined what my opponent's next move would be, so I was forever filled with uneasiness. ”

Ye Qiu spoke very slowly, but he didn't have the heavy tone that these words should have, but said it in a more relaxed tone, which would give people a very different feeling, stressful, but not suffocating.

"But it's strange, do you know the truth? When I walk out of this gate and walk to the pitch, I feel worried, very upset, but the moment I walk out of the tunnel, my whole person changes, especially when I hear the shouts of support and encouragement from the fans in the stands, I ask myself, what are you afraid of? ”

When he said this, Ye Qiu deliberately paused, so that this question also appeared in the hearts of the players.

Afraid of what?

Different people have different reasons for being afraid.

"I've always wondered, since we've stepped out of this gate and onto this green field, why should we be afraid? The fact that we can wear this shirt is a proof that we have the quality we have, and if we can get into this stadium, it means that we are qualified to play here, so what are we afraid of? ”

Everyone in the locker room was silent, only Ye Qiu's voice remained.

"In the first year of my coaching career, I was with Ajax II, playing in the youth team, but we were able to participate in the Dutch Cup, but no one was going to look up to us, but it was strange that we didn't have any burden at all, we played one game and we won the championship at the end of the day, and there were strong teams like PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord that fell under us."

"Then I thought, what did we rely on? Would we have been scared in the first place? ”

"I got the answer, and that is that we are also afraid, but we have more important things than being afraid, and that is to give it our all"

"You know, my wife told me that the reason why she loves me is because she thinks that I am the most handsome when I do my best."

Ye Qiu's words made everyone in the locker room laugh loudly, because they rarely heard Ye Qiu joke about his own affairs, but it was very true, didn't someone say it? Focus is a man's greatest charm

"I learned one thing later, a very, very important thing, that is, when you walk on this green field, when you are in front of tens of thousands of fans, in front of the live broadcast of the game in the world, fear, it is useless at all, on the contrary, fear will make you lose, lose everything, you will lose as long as you are afraid, you will lose for a lifetime, you will lose for a lifetime."

"The reality is very cruel, football games will not be because you are afraid, you don't have to play, the opponent will not be merciful to your feet because you are afraid, and the fans will not forgive you for losing the game because you are afraid, after you are afraid, you still have to bear all the consequences, bear all the responsibilities and accusations, in this case, then why are we afraid of it?"

The players all understood that they were stimulated by Ye Qiu's words, and many of them nodded.

"Later, I learned one thing more, that is, don't be afraid, and there is no need to be afraid, because everyone does everything, there is his limit, people are not God, they are not omnipotent, we have places that are difficult for us, we can't do everything well, and in the same way, we can't win every game."

"But the key is, my players, we have to give it our all, we have to do everything we can on the pitch and try everything we can to beat our opponents, because that's the only way we can be worthy of our shirts, we can be worthy of the fans behind us, we can be worthy of ourselves."

"If you ask me, what is the most important thing for a professional footballer?"

"I will not hesitate to tell you, dignity"

"Dignity, for a professional footballer, is more important than their lives, we can lose all the games, we can lose all the championships, we can even lose our football lives on the pitch, but guys, my players, we can't lose our dignity"

"Only by going all out can we defend our dignity, ensure that we win, win the admiration of our opponents, and win the respect of everyone if we lose, so that we can leave a memorable experience in our lives."

More and more players listened to Ye Qiu's words, and they couldn't stop nodding, even the experienced veteran Cannavaro and others agreed with Ye Qiu's words, because they chose to leave Inter Milan, leave Juventus, and come to Chelsea, the purpose was not to win the championship here, this is something that no one can guarantee, they came to Chelsea for only one purpose, that is, to regain their dignity

"It's not a game for the so-called championship, it's not a game for a huge prize money, it's not a game for other people, it's not for the team, it's not for the fans."

"This is a race for ourselves, for your own dignity"

"Don't let your fears take over your minds, clench your fists, warriors, we're going to get out of this door, we're going to go out of that green field, we're going to fight for dignity"

The "good" players responded in unison.

"Spectators, welcome to Ataturk Stadium Istanbul, Turkey"

"What is being broadcast live for you now is the UEFA Champions League final of the 045 season, the Champions League final between two teams from the Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool."

"We saw that under the leadership of the Spanish referee Mejuto González, the referee team and the players of both teams walked into the stadium one after another, and the atmosphere was very enthusiastic, because there were more than 70,000 enthusiastic Premier League fans here."

'Wearing the blue shirt is Chelsea, a team that won the Champions League last season and will be aiming to defend this season, but it will be very difficult because they will have a total of seven main stars absent for this game, including superstars Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard and John Terry, and the other four players are central midfielder Claude Makelele, main goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, main right-back McCone and main centre-forward Drogba.

'Chelsea's starting line-up for this game was Cudicini in goal, Heinze, Gallas, Cannavaro and Son Jihai in defence, Davies, Deco and Parker in midfield, and Ribery, Gudjohnsen and Wayne Rooney in front.

"Compared to Chelsea's lack of young generals, Liverpool is strong, but Benitez obviously does not dare to make a big difference, because in the past few Premier League and cup competitions, Liverpool have been choked by Chelsea and then defeated, this game Benitez adopted a more secure tactic in the starting line-up."

'The goalkeeper is Dudek, the back is Traore, Hyyyia, Carragher and Finnan, the midfield is a back three Hamann, Xavi Alonso and Steven Gerrard, and the front three is Reese, Baros and Luis Garcia.

"Judging from the starting lineups of the two teams, whether it is Chelsea or Liverpool, they are obviously more cautious, especially Liverpool, even if Chelsea has 7 main players absent in this game, Benitez is obviously still afraid of Chelsea's strength, but there is also a very favorable factor for Liverpool is that Chelsea's head coach, Ye Qiu from China, was banned by UEFA and sent to the stands"

With the words of the on-site commentator, the live camera of the game moved to the rostrum, and Ye Qiu was seen appearing on the rostrum accompanied by three bodyguards, surrounded by famous bigwigs in European football, including the management of Chelsea and Liverpool.

Ye Qiu's position is in the core area, which not only shows UEFA's respect for him, but at the same time, it does not rule out the idea of supervising Ye Qiu, after all, no matter where he is arranged, it is difficult to be reassured, who knows if this scheming guy will have any more moths?

With players from both sides lined up in front of the tunnel and with both captains and vice-captains sidelined for yellow cards, Cannavaro wore the captain's armband and became the team's on-field captain, playing a coin guess with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard as Chelsea won the kick-off.

The two sides returned to their own halves and lined up, and the atmosphere in the Ataturk Stadium suddenly became tense, especially when the referee Mejuto stood in the center circle, ready to blow the whistle at any time.

Finally, with a crisp whistle, the game finally kicked off.

"Okay, this much-anticipated focus event has finally kicked off, we saw Chelsea, which took the lead in kick-off, launched an attack on Liverpool, we all know that Chelsea is best at attacking, I don't know if Ye Qiu will continue to adopt attacking tactics this time."

But before Chelsea's first wave of attack could reach Liverpool's 30-metre zone, Gerrard had a direct collision with Davies, cut off the ball at the Dutchman's feet, and then quickly passed to Xavi Alonso, and the Spaniard adjusted and passed the ball directly to the left with a big foot.

Reese quickly advanced along the left side, but Chelsea's right side defense also defended quickly, Sun Jihai blocked Reese on the right side, and Chelsea's defense line also organized an effective defensive position at the first time, destroying the first wave of Liverpool's attack, but the Reds were obviously not ready to stop there, and still adopted a high defense, collectively pressed, and launched a round of attack on Chelsea.

'It's Xavi Alonso's through ball again, it's dangerous, Baros gets the ball in the box and he's going to get up

"Cannavaro, nice break, Cannavaro cut off the ball at Baroshe's feet and defused a Liverpool attack"

"But the ball still fell at the feet of Liverpool, and Liverpool fought fiercely after the opening, which is also the prediction of many professionals on Liverpool's tactics before the game, that is, we should give full play to Ye Qiu's weakness of not being able to directly command the game, and directly disrupt Chelsea's rhythm after the opening, and Benitez's rush is undoubtedly to achieve such a goal."

As Liverpool attacked, Chelsea had to retreat and keep the three lines tight, with Gudjohnsen more of a midfielder than a centre-forward, as he dropped back to the top of the pitch and Ribery and Wayne Rooney pressed up.

This is also the tactic that Ye Qiu can adopt, if there are conditions to take the attack after the opening, Chelsea still has to tear apart Liverpool's defense from the two ribs, but Benitez adopted a more secure three-back tactic in this game, the purpose is to block his two ribs and resolve Chelsea's attack.

And Benitez is obviously more tactically adventurous than Mourinho, the Portuguese did not dare to attack after the opening, but Benitez was very resolute in adopting attacking tactics, not at all worried about being counterattacked by Chelsea

Because for Benitez, disrupting Chelsea's tactics and rhythm after the opening kick-off was undoubtedly more important than anything else.

Ye Qiu was also watching his heartbeat in the stands, his brows were locked, and he noticed that Tengkart kept calling for players on the sidelines, and Cannavaro was also playing the role of team captain, constantly calling on his teammates to stabilize and maintain defensive order.

For Chelsea, the safest and most effective way to do without a manager is to counter-attack.

Even, Ye Qiu is fully prepared, if the game can be dragged into a penalty shootout, Chelsea will have a better chance of winning than in a 0-minute game.

But only if Chelsea can guarantee that they don't concede a goal in the next 0 minutes